1. Tripwire (Jack Reacher)
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Written By: Lee Child

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is settling into lazy Key West when a stranger comes looking for him. When the man is found dead, Reacher follows the trail to New York, where he discovers an opponent more vicious than any he's ever faced. more..

2. Oh, the Places You'll Go! (Classic Seuss)
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Written By: Dr. Seuss

Illus. in full color. "Don't be fooled by the title of this seriocomic ode

to success; it's not 'Climb Every Mountain,' kid version. All journeys face

perils, whether from indecision, from loneliness, or worst of all, from too

much waiting. Seuss' familiar pajama-clad hero is up to the challenge, and his

odyssey is captured vividly in busy two-page spreads evoking both more..

3. Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Publisher: Nation Books
Written By: Eduardo Galeano

Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”

Mirrors, Galeano’s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen more..

4. The Odyssey
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Homer

If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. more..

5. The Poet
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio Books
Written By: Michael Connelly

With his four Harry Bosch novels, Michael Connelly joined "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). Connelly returns with his most searing thriller yet - a major departure that recalls the best work of Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs) and James Patterson (Along Came a Spider).

Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat more..

6. The Shadow of Sirius
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Written By: W.S. Merwin

WS Merwin may be the most influential American poet of the last half-century - an artist who has transfigured and reinvigorated the vision of poetry for our time. Bloodaxe published his "Selected Poems" in 2007. Now 81, Merwin has produced 'his best book in a decade - and one of the best outright' ("Publishers Weekly"). The nuanced mysteries of light, darkness, presence, and memory are central more..

7. Push
Publisher: Knopf
Written By: Sapphire

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her more..

8. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in the exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels in this story to the historical more..

9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Written By: Maya Angelou

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San more..

10. Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
Publisher: Book Jungle
Written By: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809. Poe was a poet, author, and literary critic. He is one of the leading authors of the Romantic period. His tales of the macabre have delighted and scared readers. He is considered the founder of the detective/fiction genre and contributed to the popularity of science fiction. This collection contains Memoir, Poems of Later Life, Poems of Manhood, Scenes from more..